Washington, D.C. — The American Economic Liberties Project released the following statement after the Arizona House Commerce Committee voted to approve HB 2200, a bill to limit the power of dominant app distributors such as Apple and Google.

“We applaud the Arizona representatives who stood up to dominant Big Tech firms today and voted to approve this important bill,” said Pat Garofalo, Director of State and Local Policy at the American Economic Liberties Project. “They are working to provide local businesses with what they need: access to open and fair markets.”

“Dominant gatekeepers like Apple and Google are able to use their dominance to extract enormous fees from small- and mid-sized businesses, with the ever-present threat of severing those businesses from their own customers,” added Garofalo. “This bill will begin to address that power imbalance and bring real competition to an important market.” 

“We hope the full Arizona House swiftly approves the bill, and that similar bills that have been introduced in other states such as Illinois, Florida, and New York are passed into law,” said Garofalo.

To learn more, read “States Are Right to Rebel Against Big Tech” in The New York Times here.

Learn more about Economic Liberties here.

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The American Economic Liberties Project works to ensure America’s system of commerce is structured to advance, rather than undermine, economic liberty, fair commerce, and a secure, inclusive democracy. Economic Liberties believes true economic liberty means entrepreneurs and businesses large and small succeed on the merits of their ideas and hard work; commerce empowers consumers, workers, farmers, and engineers instead of subjecting them to discrimination and abuse from financiers and monopolists; foreign trade arrangements support domestic security and democracy; and wealth is broadly distributed to support equitable political power.